Kwik-Stand: Discontinued — What to Buy Instead
A workshop support stand no longer on sale. What makes a roller stand help rather than hinder, and what to buy now.
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The Kwik-Stand is discontinued and no longer sold.
Roller stands cause as many problems as they solve
This is worth saying before recommending one. A support stand set even slightly high lifts the workpiece off the machine table, which on a table saw lifts the board off the fence and produces a cut that wanders — or worse, binds. Set slightly low, the board drops off the end of the table and the cut closes on the blade.
The stand has to be level with the machine table, or a hair below. Never above. Most stands are used badly because people set them by eye.
The second problem is direction. A single roller lets the board move sideways as freely as forward. On a table saw that is exactly the movement you are trying to prevent. Ball-bearing multi-directional tops are worse than a plain roller here, not better — they are for feeding onto a bandsaw or drill press, not for keeping a board against a rip fence.
What to look for
A fine height adjustment you can reach with the board resting on it, not a pin through a hole every 50mm.
A footprint wide enough that a heavy board on the outer edge does not tip it. This is where cheap stands fail, and it fails suddenly.
Locking castors or plain feet, not bare tube ends that walk across a concrete floor under load.
The alternative worth considering
An outfeed table. A flat surface at exactly saw height, fixed, supports the board across its whole width and cannot be set wrong. If your workshop has room for one, it beats any stand. A stand is what you use when it has to fold away.
What to buy
The Triton MSA200 Multi-Stand, linked below, is an adjustable support with an interchangeable head, so the same base takes a roller or a flat top depending on the machine you are feeding. The adjustable head is the feature that matters: it lets you use a plain top on the table saw, where sideways freedom is a liability.
A pair of sawhorses and a straight length of timber does the job for nothing if the height happens to work out. The stand buys you adjustment.